Insane or Not?

Scott Panetti was in and out of mental hospitals (oh, thanks for saving us from socialized medicine, conservatives) before he killed somebody. At his trial he represented himself. He wore a purple cowboy outfit and called the Pope, JFK, and, oh yeah, JESUS as witnesses. This not being evidence of insanity in Texas, he was convicted by a jury of his peers (I’d like to meet his peers – but only under clinical circumstances) and sentenced to death.